The Lgbt Of Lesbian And Gay Youth

The problem of Suicide by LGBT Youth is that majority of them get bullied by their heterosexual peers. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014) Sometimes their parents will kick them out of the house because of their sexual orientation. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014) Myself being a part of the LGBTQ community, I never came out to my peers at school. I kept to myself so I never experienced the bullying due to my sexual orientation but I do hear the comments all the time by my father. My father always believed in a marriage should be a male and a female.

Because of this many of them arrive to work in fear of rejection or being ‘outed’ causing them to lose their job. As discovered by expert Cosby Burns “Discrimination and unequal treatment on the job inflicts significant economic harm on gay and transgender public-sector employees and their families.” (http://www.americanprogress.org) Many open homosexuals will be turned down for employment just because of their sexual orientation despite qualifications, even though it is completely irrelevant to their skills and no one’s business but their own.

Part of my training in becoming a counselor, I have developed and continue to develop skill to advocate for all youths. Through mindfulness training, I want be an advocate for LGBTQ youths by empowering them and providing useful skills that promote independent living. Every youth, gender conforming or non-gender conforming, deserves the right to live a success, content and fulfill life.

The members of the LGBT community have struggled a very long time through many obstacles and a lot of hatred in attempt to be accepted by the people of their community. Recently, America passed a law that made gay marriage legal, making progress on the community’s fight to abolish homophobia. Unfortunately, what many people don’t know, homosexuality still very, very illegal in 76 countries, punishments being imprisonment or worse. All around the world, 47.9% of LGBT males and 72.9% of LGBT females think about committing suicide, 29% of LGBT males and 52.4% of LGBT females attempt suicide, and 1 out of every 25 LGBT males and 2 out of every 25 of LGBT females who attempt at suicide succeed at it. Even though both Equiano’s and Wilson’s battles are over, this battle seems like it is just

GLBT youths were more vulnerable than their peers. In the film, some students talked about their negative feeling about others’ reaction based on their sexual orientation. Thus, teaching GLBT youths how to stay away from others’ judgments would also be vital. Teaching them they are just who they are, and teach how to not to judge themselves by others’ standards.

Many people from older generations argue that same sex parenting is an abomination resisting any other insight into what is truly best for children. But it is true that hundreds of thousands of children are placed in foster care awaiting their forever families, and these children should not be denied a permanent family because of narrow mindedness. It does not take a scientist to figure that two people of the same sexual orientation cannot biologically conceive a child on their own; therefore adoption is the only option homosexuals have. While adoption

Homophobia and transphobia, especially amongst youths, can lead to higher rates of depression and suicide. It is estimated that 30-40% of all LGBT+ youth have attempted to take their lives, the average age for suicide attempts is much lower amongst LGBT+ people (37.5) than those who do not suffer from non-gender/binary identity-related hate (55.7). Active homophobia is often prominent in religious groups, the most homophobic being sub-genres/cultures/divisions of Christianity. A friend of mine attends Korowa Anglican Girl's School, a school which heavily bases its values upon Anglican beliefs. He is transgender and has been victim of homophobia and transphobia from both school officials and from female peers who have had religious upbringings since joining the school in 2012. Due to this abuse, he has been made to feel unsafe both at school and at home for his identity, and has consequently turned to self-deprecating behaviour to alleviate his suffering for a short time. Is this how we, as a nation, want our children and young adults to feel? Do we want them to hate themselves for something they have no control or choice over, especially in retrospect to political agenda, where laws are in place that allow such acts to unfurl? 42% of LGBT+ youth live in an

As Christians we have great reasons to pay close attention to adoption. For many, many years now we have been called upon to serve those who are less fortunate than us and provide charity to those in need. We are here to debate about who should be allowed to adopt and foster children. We are also here to try and persuade those who are listening to do the right thing. The main focus here are the children and what is best for the greater number of people, which in this case is the orphan children that need adopting. We must pay close attention to the sanctity rights of these children that are in need of a home. Who else can be allowed to adopt these children than people with dignity, may it be gay, lesbian or straight.

Many states laws deny children in foster care, healthy, loving homes simply because of a potential parent’s sexual orientation (Gray, 2006), The catholic church as well as other organization’s oppose gay adoption based upon religious teachings, while others debate the legality of it (Gray, 2006). In today’s society, many children grow up to be emotionally stable and successful whether they have a heterosexual couple as parents or a same sex couple as parents. Gay parent adoptions are an equal right, as they are becoming more mainstream and are as equally stable as heterosexual adoptions.

In America, there are laws and policies to protect the working class. Employers can not discriminate on employees based on race or gender, although sexual orientation is not covered by such laws. This leaves gay people venerable to discrimination in the work place or the termination of their job, because of how they choose to express their sexuality. This venerability caused by the lack of anti-discrimination laws. This puts gay people into a situation that is less stable than their heterosexual counter parts. As long as a person’s intimate relationships do not impact work performance, then a person’s relationship choices, gay or not, should not be a concern to the employer. Homophobia is often based on one’s religious belief that gays

According to Prof. Eric Manalastas of UP Diliman Department of Psychology, “In the LGBT literature, we make a distinction among three kinds of contexts.” He also added “On one hand, we have contexts that are hostile to LGBTs, such as in places where you have policies against cross-dressing or same-sex relationships, or where there is a certain amount of jeopardy in being ‘outed’ as an LGBT in the institution.” Some work places, which are considered antagonistic contexts, where a person who reveals himself/herself as part of the LGBT community ends up getting fired from their jobs, or being prohibited to enrol in a school, or gets barred, punished or judged for having same-sex relationships or for not fitting in the accepted norms of being “male”

Gay parents are facing discrimination because of their sexual orientation. Twenty-two states currently allow single gays to adopt and 21 states currently allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt in the U.S. (Mallon, 2007, p. 6). The ability of gay couples to rear a child should not be denied only because they are gay. Homosexuals may be looked down upon by society, but they still are humans and have morals. These morals they possess, may influence a child more than those morals taught to a child with heterosexual parents. All over the world, children suffer in families consisting of alcoholics, drug abusers, and sexual abusers (Powell, 2007, p.1). It is not possible that these environments are safer than what would be provided by homosexual

Ignorance of the public plays a very important role in many of the issues facing LGBTQ

Ever bullied a child or young adult because of their sexual orientation or gender identity? If so, think about how that person felt and how they could have been affected. Juatin Aaberg was just fifteen when he killed himself in the summer of 2010. He came out as gay at the age of thirteen and endured years of bullying at the hands of classmates. Juatin hanged himself in his bedroom; his mother found his body (Savage, Miller, pg. 1). Juatin is one of the many kids that commit suicide each year from being bullied because of his sexual orientation. Youth is an important time in one's life, and kids like Juatin are not able to pursue a full enjoyable life when their youth is being ruined with hate. The LGBT youth should be accepted because they can not help who they are, they are human just like any other person, acceptance can lead to success, and suicidal thoughts can attack the non-accepted.

Many LGBT have to face discrimination while trying to attend and can be such a huge obstacle to try to receive an education when you have to go to a hostile work environment every day. In the article “Like walking through a Hailstorm-discrimination against LGBT Youth in US Schools” states that “A lack of policies and practices that affirm and support LGBT youth-and failure to implement protections that do exist -means that LGBT students nationwide continue to face bullying, exclusion, and discrimination in school, putting them at physical and phycological risk and